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Ash Jegroo

Ash Jegroo is a mixed-race Brooklyn native who enjoys peace, love, and making trouble for the establishment. When he’s not driving out the hipster colonizers and their occupying army of cops,​ he's live-tweeting protests at @AshAgony.

French authorities have told migrants living in the Calais refugee camp to move into another camp with “better conditions”, but many of the migrants have refused, claiming the new camp looks like a detention center.

In the USA, cops killed a total of 1,134 people in 2015 including 50-year-old Siolosega Velega-Nuufolau. In Brazil, cops robbed and tortured a group of youth on Christmas night. In Zambia, civilians clash with cops in the streets.

This week, German neo-Nazis held an anti-immigration march in southern Leipzig. Thousands of anti-facists showed up in protest. In response, about a dozen counter-protests were set up. Police responded by tear-gassing and pepper-spraying protesters.

In Mexico, police attack another group of normalistas, arresting 13 and injuring 8 students. In Turkey, around the Kurdish city of Silvan, cops continue their violent fight against Kurdistan Workers’ Party, forcing thousands to flee the city.

This week in ACAB, police assaulted a teen girl during her high school class, bagged 19 anarchists occupying the fascist party headquarters in Greece, and tear gassed counter-protesters in Germany, and other news from the field.

Delaware police shot 28-year-old Jeremy “Bam” McDole until he fell out of his wheelchair. Meanwhile in Brazil, cops killed a 11-year-old child in Rio de Janeiro, the sixth child under the age of 14 to have died at the hands of police in the city this year.

Meanwhile, a state of emergency declared in Macedonia in response to influx of Syrian and Afghan migrants, with riot police policing the border. In Mexico, the police murder of Jorge L. is followed by protests, with sticks and stones being thrown at government buildings.

One of the police’s main activities is harassing and arresting marginalized people in the name of enforcing laws against so-called “quality of life” crimes. This week, the cops showed that they themselves are probably the biggest threat to your quality of life.